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Load an Email from MIME in a BinData

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetFromMimeBd method, which loads an email from the MIME stored in a BinData object. On success, it replaces the entire current email. This example serializes one email into a BinData with GetMimeBd, then reconstructs it in a second object.

Background: This is the binary counterpart to SetFromMimeText and SetFromMimeSb. When a message's raw MIME arrives as bytes — read from a file, a socket, or a database blob into a BinData — loading it directly avoids any lossy or awkward byte-to-text conversion, which matters because MIME can carry binary transfer encodings.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

#  Demonstrates the SetFromMimeBd method, which loads an email from MIME stored in a BinData
#  object.  On success, it replaces the entire current email.

#  Build a source email and serialize its MIME into a BinData.
$source = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$source.Subject = "Source message"
$source.From = "alice@example.com"
$source.Body = "Hello from a BinData."
$bdMime = New-Object Chilkat.BinData
$source.GetMimeBd($bdMime)

#  Load a new email object from the BinData MIME.
$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email

$success = $email.SetFromMimeBd($bdMime)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($email.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("Loaded subject: " + $email.Subject)